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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, accompanied by Employment Minister, Catherine Vautrin, and Industry Minister Roland Lescure, visited the Mauffrey Academy, a training centre for transport and logistics professions in Eloyes in the Vosges region of northeastern France. (COMPLETES VIDI34KK624_EN) IMAGES
French unions call for mass protests and strike after French retail group Casino announced to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. At the group's headquarters in Saint-Etienne, in east-central France, employees are demonstrating the potential dismantling of their store. IMAGES
Employees at French retailer Casino are demonstrating outside the group's headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Unions called for the protest as thefood retail group has declared itself to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. The group owns several supermarket chains such as Monoprix, Franprix, Exito, Pao de Acucar... 200,000 employees work for the Casino group worldwide including 50,000 in France. IMAGES
The United States has urged Israel to avoid civilian casualties in its war on Hamas but some will be inevitably hurt in the "messy" conflict, the White House says. "This is war. It is combat. It is bloody, ugly and it's going to be messy and innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Images from a multi-train crash site that killed more than 288 people and injured more than 850 injured near Balasore, in India's eastern state of Odisha, the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years. Carriages had flipped over entirely in the crash late on Friday and as dawn broke on Saturday, rescue workers were able to see the full extent of the carnage. IMAGES
Hundreds of Chileans march through the streets of the capital Santiago with banners and flags to mark International Labour Day. Chile recently approved a gradual reduction in the work week from 45 to 40 hours, paving the way to join Ecuador and Venezuela in having Latin America's shortest work week. IMAGES
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